Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources: First International Workshop, Sapir 2004, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 1-6, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004)

Bandwidth Allocation.- Fair Bandwidth Allocation for the Integration of Adaptive and Non-adaptive Applications.- A Managed Bandwidth Reservation Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks.- Predictive Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Based on Multifractal Traffic Characteristic.- Bandwidth Allocation Management Based on Neural Networks Prediction for VoD System Providers.- Policy-Based Operations.- Policy-Based Management of Grids and Networks Through an Hierarchical Architecture.- Policy-Based Service Provisioning for Mobile Users.- Dynamic IP-Grouping Scheme with Reduced Wireless Signaling Cost in the Mobile Internet.- 3G Wireless Networks Provisioning and Monitoring Via Policy Based Management.- Service Monitoring.- Combined Performance Analysis of Signal Level-Based Dynamic Channel Allocation and Adaptive Antennas.- Exploring Service Reliability for Content Distribution to Partial or Intermittent DVB-S Satellite Receivers.- Priority-Based Recovery Assurance for Double-Link Failure in Optical Mesh Networks with Insufficient Spare Resources.- Service Model and Its Application to Impact Analysis.- Intelligent Architectural Systems.- Active Networks and Computational Intelligence.- Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Network Management Systems - New Approaches.- Network Traffic Sensor for Multiprocessor Architectures: Design Improvement Proposals.- Software Modeling for Open Distributed Network Monitoring Systems.- Mobility and Wireless.- Analysis and Contrast Between STC and Spatial Diversity Techniques for OFDM WLAN with Channel Estimation.- Cumulative Caching for Reduced User-Perceived Latency for WWW Transfers on Networks with Satellite Links.- Mobility Agent Advertisement Mechanism for Supporting Mobile IP in Ad Hoc Networks.- Agent Selection Strategies in Wireless Networks with Multihomed Mobile IP.- Protocol Mechanisms.- An On-Demand QoS Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.- Point-to-Group Blocking in 3-Stage Switching Networks with Multicast Traffic Streams.- Considerations on Inter-domain QoS and Traffic Engineering Issues Through a Utopian Approach.- Probabilistic Routing in Intermittently Connected Networks.- Performance Across Domains.- Communication Protocol for Interdomain Resource Reservation.- Performance Evaluation of Shortest Path Computation for IP and MPLS Multi-service Networks over Open Source Implementation.- Design and Evaluation of Redundant IPC Network Adequate for an Edge Router.- Leaky Bucket Based Buffer Management Scheme to Support Differentiated Service in Packet-Switched Networks.- An Improved Service Differentiation Scheme for VBR VoIP in Ad-Hoc Networks Connected to Wired Networks.